Should postactivation potentiation be the goal of your warm-up?

摘要

Athletes expect improved high-intensity performance following warm-up, and postactivation potentiation (PAP) isnassumed to contribute to this improvement. However, the scientific evidence supporting this assumption is incomplete. PAPnis known to result from prior muscle activation, and should enhance maximal effort contractions of very short duration.nHowever, PAP dissipates over 4–6 min after the PAP-inducing contraction, so PAP should not contribute to enhanced performancenmore than 5 min after the warm-up.